Cleat for end-gates



(No Model.)

J. H. WARREN.

OLEAT FOR END GATES.

Patented Apr. 22, 1884-.

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CLEAT FOR EN D=GATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,!77, dated April22, 1884:.

- Application filed January 30, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. XVARREN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Burlington Junction, in the county of Nodaway and State ofMissouri, have invented a new and useful Gleat for End-Gates, of whichthe following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

Figure l is a view in perspective of my improved hinged cleat for theend-gates of wagons, the cleat being swung open. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation from the outside, the cleat being closed. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation from the inside, the cleat being swung partially open; andFig. 4 is a horizontal section taken through the upper arm of the hinge.

This invention has relation to hinged cleats for holding the end-gatesof a wagon-box removably in place; and it consists in the constructionand novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described,and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates thewagon-box, a portion of which only is shown, that being sufficient toillustrate my invention. Z) designates the rearend of the right-handside-board of the wagon-box a, provided on its inner face with theordinary stationary wooden cleat, c. The opposite sideboard of thewagon-box is provided with the usual two vertical stationary'woodencleats to receive the end of the end-gate between them. The outer faceof the side-board b is provided with a metal U- shape or horseshoe-formframe, (1. the points of the arms of which are provided with eyes (1,which, when the frame at is secured in place by screws or bolts, occupythe recesses e e in the rear vertical edge of the'side-board b. Anyother form or shape of frame d may be used, or separate arms Wit-h eyesmay be used in lieu of the frame d.without departing from the characterof the invention. The recesses e e extend into the side-board bsufficiently far to form seats for the arms 7 f of the metallic cleat g.The inner ends of the arms ff are provided with eyes h h, and pintles orheaded bolts 7c 7c are passed through the eyes (2 and h, to form thehinges between the metal frame d and the metallic cleat g. The armsff ofthe metallic cleatg are curved, as shown, in order that the cleat propermay be swung in against the inner face of the side-board b, which isprovided with a metalfaced opening, 6, for the reception of a perforatedstaple-stud, Z, on the plane face of the metallic cleat g. The metalfacing i" for the opening i is let into the outer face of the sideboardflush with said face, and is provided with a pivoted hook, m, forengaging the staple-stud Z and locking the cleat 9 against the outerface of the end board or gate. By this construction it is not necessaryto lift the end-gate out of the grooves between the cleats; but byraising the hook from its seat in the staple-stud the metallic cleat 9may be swung around to the outside of the side-board b and the wagonbacked up to receive or part with its load, the end-gate being pulledout backward. To place the end-gate in position, its left-hand end, inthis instance, should be introduced between the two stationary woodencleats, its right-hand end pushed in against the stationary wooden cleatc, and the hinged metallic cleat closed in against the outer face of theend-board and locked in po sition by the hook. Any board of properlength and width can be used for the end-gate; or two or more boards maybe used for this purpose.

This device is simple, durable, and useful, and is not likely to get outof order. It is light and much more easily operated than the end-gatescommonly used, and as it does not require to be lifted from its groovesthere is no danger of it becoming bound between the cleats.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In an endgate for wagons, the combination, with the side-board b, ofthe-wagon-box having the wooden cleat c, the end recesses, e e, and themetal-faced opening 1', having the pivoted hook m on the outside ofthe'faceplate of the metal frame (I let into the outer face of the boardI), and provided with the eyes (1 d at the ends of its arms, and themetal cleat 9, having perforated arms f f, In testimony that I claim theforegoing as hinged to the arms of the frame d, and workmy own I havehereto affixed my signature in ing in the recesses e e, and thestaplestud Z presence of two Witnesses. on its front or inner face, saidcleat 9 being JOHN HOWARD WARREN.

5 adapted to be turned back out of the way of WVitnesses:

the end of the wagon-box when open, substan- A. S. BOLLINGER, JOHN H.BRYANT.

tially as specified.

